Cups to grams
Pick an ingredient and enter the cups from your recipe to get the weight in grams.
1 cups of all-purpose flour
120 g
Spooned into the cup and leveled, not scooped.
| US cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 15 g |
| ¼ cup | 30 g |
| ⅓ cup | 40 g |
| ½ cup | 60 g |
| ⅔ cup | 80 g |
| ¾ cup | 90 g |
| 1 cup | 120 g |
| 1½ cups | 180 g |
| 2 cups | 240 g |
| 3 cups | 360 g |
Reference
One cup in grams
| Ingredient | 1 US cup | ½ cup | 1 tablespoon |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-purpose flour | 120 g | 60 g | 7.5 g |
| Bread flour | 120 g | 60 g | 7.5 g |
| Whole wheat flour | 113 g | 57 g | 7.1 g |
| Almond flour | 96 g | 48 g | 6 g |
| Granulated (white) sugar | 198 g | 99 g | 12.4 g |
| Brown sugar, packed | 213 g | 107 g | 13.3 g |
| Powdered (confectioners’) sugar | 113 g | 57 g | 7.1 g |
| Butter | 227 g | 114 g | 14.2 g |
| Cocoa powder, unsweetened | 84 g | 42 g | 5.3 g |
| Rolled oats | 89 g | 45 g | 5.6 g |
| Rice, long grain, uncooked | 198 g | 99 g | 12.4 g |
| Chocolate chips | 170 g | 85 g | 10.6 g |
| Cornstarch | 112 g | 56 g | 7 g |
| Peanut butter | 270 g | 135 g | 16.9 g |
| Honey | 336 g | 168 g | 21 g |
| Maple syrup | 312 g | 156 g | 19.5 g |
| Water | 237 g | 119 g | 14.8 g |
Weights for dry ingredients, butter and syrups follow King Arthur Baking’s ingredient weight chart; water uses its density of one gram per milliliter. Your own cup can differ by a few grams, depending on how you fill it.
Why bakers weigh
How full a cup gets depends on how you fill it: scooped flour can weigh 15 to 20% more than spooned flour. A kitchen scale removes that guesswork, which is why professional recipes give grams. For liquids, cups work fine; use the cups to ml converter for those.
Going the other way? Use the grams to cups converter.
Frequently asked questions
How many grams is 1 cup of flour?
About 120 grams of all-purpose flour, when you spoon the flour into the cup and level it. Scooping the cup straight into the bag packs the flour down and can give 140 grams or more, which is one reason weighing is more reliable.
How many grams is 1 cup of sugar?
About 198 grams of granulated white sugar. Packed brown sugar is heavier, about 213 grams, and powdered sugar is much lighter, about 113 grams.
Why does a cup weigh different amounts for different ingredients?
A cup measures volume, not weight. A cup of honey is heavy because honey is dense; a cup of flour or oats is light because there is a lot of air between the grains. That is why there is no single cups-to-grams number.
Which cup is this?
The US cup of about 237 ml, used in American recipes. Australian, Canadian and many other metric recipes use a 250 ml cup, which holds about 6% more.